Bradley Keoun

Bradley Keoun is CoinDesk's managing editor of tech & protocols, where he oversees a team of reporters covering blockchain technology, and previously ran the global crypto markets team. A two-time Loeb Awards finalist, he previously was chief global finance and economic correspondent for TheStreet and before that worked as an editor and reporter for Bloomberg News in New York and Mexico City, reporting on Wall Street, emerging markets and the energy industry. He started out as a police-beat reporter for the Gainesville Sun in Florida and later worked as a general-assignment reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, he double-majored in electrical engineering and classical studies as an undergraduate at Duke University and later obtained a master's in journalism from the University of Florida. He is currently based in Austin, Texas, and in his spare time plays guitar, sings in a choir and hikes in the Texas Hill Country. He owns less than $1,000 each of several cryptocurrencies.

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There's a Reason Bitcoin's Worth 500 Barrels of Oil: Bloomberg's McGlone

“Supply, demand, adoption and advancing technology point to the crypto continuing to outperform fossil fuel in the next 10 years," according to the commodities analyst.

(James St. John/Creative Commons)

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First Mover Asia: Crypto Prices Rise on Better-Than-Expected US Inflation News

The consumer price index rose 7%, but many investors anticipated a steeper increase; bitcoin and ether prices notched solid gains during the U.S. trading day.

Mountain climber

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Bitcoin Snaps 6-Day Losing Streak, Holds Above $40K

The price appears to have stabilized after a nearly weeklong downdraft that marked one of the cryptocurrency’s worst-ever starts to a year.

Bitcoin's daily price chart shows the cryptocurrency rebounding after a six-day losing streak. (TradingView/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Falls Toward $40K, Racks Up Longest Losing Streak Since 2018

Cryptocurrency analysts had warned of the possibility of a steeper sell-off, and now traders are wondering when and where the market shakeout might end.

Bitcoin's daily price chart shows the decline toward $40,000 after a seven-day losing streak. (TradingView/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Falls to 1-Month Low as Fed Minutes Reveal Talks to Shrink Balance Sheet

A reduction in the balance sheet might undermine bitcoin’s appeal as an inflation hedge.

Bitcoin's hourly price chart showed steep drop in the hour after the Fed meetings were released. (TradingView)

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Market Wrap Year-End Review: Bitcoin Peaks as Coinbase Goes Public

Tesla’s bitcoin acceptance helped to send the BTC price to an all-time high near $65,000 in April, almost unthinkable just a few months earlier. Coinbase’s direct stock listing marked the exact date of the market top.

The peak of the bitcoin market in April 2021 perfectly coincided with the elevated hype surrounding the Coinbase direct stock listing. (William Henry Jackson/Art Institute of Chicago, modified by CoinDesk)

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Market Wrap Year-End Review: Musk Pumps Bitcoin and Dogecoin

Dogecoin pumped along with bitcoin thanks to some high profile tweets.

Image posted on Feb. 4, 2021, by Elon Musk's Twitter account. (@elonmusk/Twitter, modified by CoinDesk)

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Market Wrap Year-End Review: Bitcoin Starts Off in a Frenzy

In this first episode of Market Wrap’s review of crypto markets in 2021, we recall the powerful rally that ushered in the new year. Retail traders piled in, even as some institutional investors sounded warnings about rampant speculation.

Chicago Board of Trade traders, 1949 (Stanley Kubrick via Wikimedia Commons)

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Bitcoin Slides Toward $46K, Dropping Alongside US Stock Market

Bitcoin’s hopes for a powerful year-end rally toward $100,000 are fading.

Bitcoin price chart over the past week. (CoinDesk)

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Fed Speeds Up Stimulus Withdrawal, and Bitcoin Jumps

The Fed will reduce its bond purchases by $30 billion every month to wind them down early next year, doubling from the current pace of withdrawal of $15 billion every month.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks Wednesday at a press conference. (Federal Reserve, modified by CoinDesk)